Building a Homestead in 100 Days - Day 56

Day 56 of 100 Days Building a Homestead. This time, prepping for a big butchering— a beef, lamb, and 2 pigs. Only if our tractor will start. That tractor running could mean everything these next 2 days. As you saw a couple of days ago, we're still not able to really keep it, keep it on. It's a 30-year-old tractor. Look, we've got lambs, pigs, and a steer to harvest. It's important that we harvest now because we're going into the winter. People are going on deep bedding. We're running out of grass and forest acorns and stuff to feed everybody. And so that's just money going— when it doesn't need to. They're fattened up, they're good size. This is good timing. You want to rest for the winter, you gotta harvest as much as you can fall, early winter to prepare for the winter. The problem is the local processor only takes deliveries Monday. That's, uh, and, and that's— so that's this Monday. The next Monday she doesn't— she can't do it because it's the week before Christmas. And then the next Monday is the day after Christmas. So I— it's going to take us 2 days to butcher, so we're gonna need a Sunday. I don't think we want to butcher on Christmas. I mean, doing chores is one thing, but butchering on Christmas? No thanks. Let's go check on Mark in a second. Today is a zero day, so we're not going to do any projects, although we are gonna— we may be having to get ready for butchering, so we will do that. We're not going to be clearing or anything, but let's do some updating. Look at this. Randolph has updated our milk sled. The beefy one we built was just way too much. It was just too heavy. And we're doing this— I, I could have done it because, well, I say I have a tractor, but my tractor is pretty unreliable. It's pretty unreliable. So another good reason to make this work. And we want to make it work because this is going to be a design for you guys. Ultimately, we'll have all my designs in a book. These tests Testing it.

It's going.

We're perfecting it, so it's smaller because the first one, it wasn't tough enough. We tried 6x6s, we went back to 4x4s, we went back to a bigger bracing on the verticals. We did— he did a diagonal bracing everywhere on each post. I think that will work, and then you don't have to have a crossbeam permanent so cows can get in and out. We have a pole that you hook your chain to, and that way when you pull, the chain pulls on that pole and not like if you hook directly to the legs. If you hook directly to the legs, you would have this inner pull. What is going on? Is this what happens sometimes on rest day? We take a rest on Saturday once a week. Most people around here rest on Sunday, so sometimes that does—

keep working.

Mark, he's like a farm farmer and homesteader, he doesn't care what day it is, he gets work done. Okay, it's the electrician. I think he's putting in lights for the root cellar today. We have these handy dandy metal skids, learned this from Polyface Designs, that we put on the bottom of this. You'll also notice this is decking material, 1-inch decking, plastic material, so it slides easy and won't tear up the wood, keeps the wood off the ground so it won't rot. This one. We did our, our ribbing all even this time to look a little more beautiful. What do you think? Is it pretty? I don't think it's very pretty, but it's very practical, and it's prettier than what it was. One side will be shade cloth, the other side will be tents that we can milk under it if it's raining. And I've learned it doesn't really matter. I like just hooking the cows up to Sally and not messing with having to pull this, but this is a 3-in-1. You can milk around it, we're gonna have minerals on it, and it will be their shade in the summer. But I think I'll just pull their minerals in a sled when we go on really gnarly stuff, or in the woods when they do have shade, and we'll just leave this behind. But we'll use this when we're out in the field without shade. You can't—

you got it, you stopped it right there.

You got it, you got it.

Yeah, it had it right here where the fuel shut off is.

Yeah.

It was stopped up right there. Okay, so we've got fuel, but we've got one more thing I'm going to have to fix. I didn't fix it today, but this fitting right here, yeah, the threads are stripped on this part.

Okay.

And what I have to do is take this off and take it with me and go get one.

Okay.

But to keep from losing your fuel—

oh, when does that happen, when you start it, or when it's just sitting there?

That's when I was working on it this evening. Uh, when I had— when I took that line off to blow it out. Is that it stripping right now? Yeah, but you can do this right here. You can take and turn this off.

Oh, okay.

But you have to get— you have to take a— to get it to completely quit, you have to get something and turn it on until it stops.

It's a big struggle to harvest, uh, beef and pigs without a tractor because we use the— and the buckets working fine. Buckets working fine because we're gonna be scalding pigs, 2 pigs, and then transporting pigs and, and then, and then a beef. So we're gonna need that bucket.

You can just take— that's what I use. Oh, take and run it. Okay, it stops. Okay, but you know, and it should start right up. I mean, when I get back, you just have to loosen this up and— okay, turn your fuel back on.

How far do you loosen it?

Just, just like that, right there. Okay, about 3 or 4 turns. Okay, and it should start.

And you won't be able to fix that by tomorrow, of course.

No, but you'll be able to use it.

Okay.

I mean, you should be fine as far as using it.

Okay.

I mean, it should start right up right now.

I noticed when he started it, there was a spark right there. That's not good. All that diesel fuel and then a spark. So I had him look, and you've got— what did you just think? It's loose?

Yes, probably.

Well, it's just You think this tractor's done for? You think it's worth putting some money into it?

I miss a good old tractor, I'm telling you. It's hard to beat these old ones.

We'll get it then.

I mean, there's no computer to deal with, you know.

That's true.

That's the best part about it.

So I guess you can theoretically fix anything on it.

Oh yeah, this thing will run on cooking oil.

Yeah, that'd be nice. I didn't see it spark that time. That time, no spark.

That time it was just a little loose. I might be able to do it tomorrow for Monday. Okay, is I'll come up and take this line off.

Okay.

And get— it's this end. I tried to fix the nipple that was in there and it wouldn't.

All right, thanks. Now while Mark's here, we're gonna look at the wood boiler. He has some ideas to make it run more efficiently. He has thoughts that it's not running as efficiently as it could be.

It's right at 181. That's what you—

that's what we want. That's what it was.

Firebox 354. Okay, so it's, it's shut down because you're not using it, right? Yeah, but you can even see— yeah, this crystal is dried up. See how it's dried up from the other day?

Starting to burn it then?

Yeah, so that's good. Flake now. Yes, that means it's working right. Okay, but there's a tube that runs That on the bottom?

Yeah, you can feel it.

Did the air go through? Yeah. And if that thing is— okay, the least bit stopped up, that's where your efficiency goes up.

Okay, that makes sense. Here, I'll show you. You can feel it if you use this one. This is the one you're supposed to use to clean up from either side of it. You can feel it in there.

Yeah, they said that was the biggest thing. That guy—

go ahead.

That guy would take it out.

Oh really?

Didn't clean it. Yeah, yeah, I see it right there now. But that's where all your fish is at.

I think you might have gotten it cleaned out when you cleaned it the other day because it worked better after you did that, remember?

Yeah, but you know, he said you can tell the chrisso would get flaky like that. This is still a little bit gummy right here. I was on the door.

He said if it's gummy, then it's going to clog things up. It's not going to be as efficient if it's crispy like this, which is what it's doing now because we know our thermometer is working right, right?

Yeah, it's, it's, uh, definitely said it should heat up like you said, just real quick.

But yeah, if we're up to temp here, 180, 185, this ain't gonna kick in. The reaction chamber doesn't need to be going.

It's the first time I've seen it when the fan wasn't running, right? That's a sign of— that's also a sign that's coming right off.

Yeah. Check on these guys. There's one of them. Mark will have to give you a bonus, give you a chunk of, chunk of that pig. Hey, ain't nothing for getting the tractor going on time. We need a— we have to have that tractor to dip them down into the scalding bucket to dip them in and out.

And I think it's feeding. They think you're gonna give them something. They do.

They think they're gonna get a bonus snack. And then we'll harvest this one. I'm thinking they're about 2— that one's even bigger, but yeah, it's a boy. I'm thinking they're 225 pounds, 250 pounds.

This is a male and a female.

Yeah, that's the difference.

Baby brother and sister. No, there's a male brother and sister, and these are their half brothers and sisters.

There's a male, there's a female. So they do get noticeably bigger, don't they? 25% bigger, 15%.

Yeah, I took a picture of them last time I was down here. Yeah, they were all piled up together over a slate. Yeah, they wasn't half that size.

Yeah, these guys are shooting up. Definitely got some mud in there. I don't know why he does this with a flat shovel. I'm gonna do it with a pitchfork. They like to poop right there in the middle. Better. We're gonna do the pigs first. They're the most difficult, unpredictable, and we need the most of the machine for. So, gun, got it in the house. Knife, let's go make sure. Basically, I go in my head down from step 1 to the end and make sure I just have all the things for it. Kids getting in the Christmas spirit. Home Alone, Home Alone 2. To where it's supposed to be. Now, okay, we're good on a knife. Um, I have a case. Do you guys know where my plastic sheath is for butchering? Okay, gun, knife, gambrel for transporting. That's over there at the hanging shed, at the butchering shed. Uh, we're gonna need a chain to hook to the gambrel, hook to the tractor to haul them over there. Kids watching the movie. I don't know, are they gonna let me watch the World Cup today? It's the— what is it? It's the semifinals? No, I don't know, quarterfinals. It's the quarterfinals. I talked to the electrician while he's here for the root cellar. Put us some outlets in on these posts, that way we don't have to run drop cord. Mark thought the battery would be good. He's got to work on the alternator too. I'm not going to make any risks. I'm going to plug this in. Look at that, he did get that stopped leaking. Whoops, I pulled this trailer too far back. Can't open my shed. I'm thinking my plastic sheath is in there. I did see our bucket of salt, which will be one of the last steps. We want to preserve the hide of Joey. We've waited till the winter to harvest him so we have this nice hide. Can I pull this? Can I grab my lines and pull this trailer? Okay, we have the romantic saw and a smaller gamble, which will come in handy for the sheep. Gambrel, sorry, not gimbal. Is that going to be a problem being rusty? One thing I do see here is the scrapers, bucking saw. I think we're good. Have we tangled our— oh boy, it doesn't look like we have. Okay, how do we get this down? Might as well get this in position. I need to get the boys to cut— there's no reason we need this much chain. That's for like, it's really tall roof. We need to cut this and the boys weld it. We're not nailing so much chain. We're going to lower this so that we can easily hook up the beef or the pork. This is our gambrel for transport system. Comes, unhooks off of this pulley, and then it's a good thing we have the, have the carabiner here to hook it to a chain to hook it to the— let's make sure that's working. See, aren't you glad we're going through this now? Like, that's going to be very frustrating tomorrow not being able to— I can't get that off. Wow, that's jammed. Whoa. I'm gonna go get the chain. We'll get the hammer. This chain may have to do, but I think we have a thinner chain. Thinner and longer. I think this would work if I had to. Haha. I don't think it has hooks on it though. Why don't I have a chain with no hooks? How did it get not— not— you know what, I'm not gonna worry about that knot unless I get hooks on this thing. Maybe we have to replace that carriage. Does this one work? I kind of may be more of a fan. I think I'd be more of a fan of this. I got 3 different sizes here. I think it's gonna have to be the bigger one, but with that hook to a chain, the problem with that is I don't think this will go through that chain. Nope. All right, none of my carabiners go through this little chain, so we need a bigger chain. Not as big as the one. We might, might just make that one work up there. Look what I got. Forgot the hammer. Maybe my dad has something in this tractor. Do you hear that? Did you hear me say tractor? You're gonna see it in action tomorrow. Here you go, right there. Isn't that the ultimate? Sit on the tractor. Starting to get a hair overwhelmed thinking about everything that needs to be set up, like barrels for at the end for it to all go in the cool room. Let's put a steer, 2 pigs, and like 5 sheep in a cool room. Aha, tractor We did have something, had a wrench, and I was able to get this open. But yeah, it's definitely not coming back into place. Good shot. I just realized I didn't bring up the, the replacement carabiner. Well, let's take this with us and see what will work on this too. If we use this chain, will it work? Nope, not big enough hook. What about this S-hook? What about that? That'd be handy if that, uh, and that won't fit any. So we need a way to connect this to a chain. That's ultimately what we're looking for so we can transport this on the tractor. Is this long enough to go around the tractor?

I think it is.

Pretty sure it is.

Yep, it should do it.

Not gonna be a whole lot of flex, but that's actually okay. You don't want a whole lot. Come on, my man, we'll come back, okay? We'll come back. Tractor, tractor. We have a hose here, that's good. We will need a nozzle. Oh, do you guys know where a nozzle is? After this World Cup. Okay, looks like it's almost over too. Where are you going? You think there's a nozzle over there? I gotta be more like Tom. Tom the electrician, he knows where everything is. He's very organized. We toured that trailer months ago. We're looking in the grill. The nozzle's in the grill. Put the grill back where it was. You saw a nozzle right here.

Wait, I saw a nozzle somewhere around here.

There's a hose. Does not need to be in the grass. We're getting somewhere. At least we just found a shutoff. I think that'd be all right. I'm trying not to have to go to town today. It's already starting to feel like a non-rest day. We're butchering pigs, Lord willing, the creek don't rise, and a steer. We're gonna dig difficult things out of the way first. So we've shot, we've knifed— shoot, what happened? I totally— look at this, guys! Are you crazy? But that's not where it goes. That's not where either one of those go. You know where I look for that?

It's the hose I was talking about.

Yeah, well, we should see if it even works.

It does.

This one works. This needs to be run down. I would look for something like this in the greenhouse. Go put that in the Anna White greenhouse. This, I don't know if I'll use it. I kind of like just to shut off. I would put that— I would want to put that— we have the 4-way, we have a nozzle. We have a quick connect. I'm looking for something neat to store this in. There, I see something. It's a little big, but it's empty. It's just sitting there. Water stuff for this nozzle.

Okay.

Don't touch my water stuff. Yes, I saw you. Problem is the kids now know where it is. I guess we'll use this one since it's already got that attached. Jonah, can you roll the tank over here and start filling it up? Uh-oh, this one's probably not long enough. A lot of pressure. Oh yeah, it'll be just barely long enough. Can you move this water thing out of the way? I wish I remember where I put my jamb rail. At least we don't have to Jerry-rig a stand. Big Daddy gave the supplies to Ben Holler and he made this legacy stand. That means your baby's babies will be using this thing. Gambrel down at the— when I was doing the water I must not forget though, because the only way to get water out of it is bucket it out. This is used for scooping out excess water or putting more boiled water on the— you know what, we're going to scrape the pig hanging, so this might not be so important. We'll have a bucket just in case we need to empty or add water. Okay, you're the third person asked this. I'm sorry I'm not communicating this well. We are butchering 2 pigs, a steer, and then 5 lambs, in that order, over 2 days. In the past, we just scald the pig, pull it out, put it on some pallets, then scrape. But Brandon Shearer taught us, he just lift it up, scrape it on one side, then flip the pig over. How do we flip the pig over though? We're gonna have to have the pallet because you got to set the pig down after you've scraped one side. You gotta pull it out, set it down, put it in the other feet, and then lift it back up. Let's see if our big boy would fit on this. It's not gonna— that big boy is not gonna fit on it. It's gonna have to be this one. That's awkward. Does this fit good enough? No, it doesn't. What is this? Answer here. This doesn't spin around. Oh, you kind of need a gigantic wide carabiner. Can't even open that to get the chain on. I guess you could do it like that. That's probably gonna wedge it open though. That's probably why we weren't able to unattach it. Once you put some weight on that, it's gonna rip up into that carabiner. Do we have a bigger heavy-duty carabiner? This is gonna have to work. I don't know what the answer to that is. I probably need to go to a hardware store and look around. I think I thought of the answer. I think there's probably a smoother answer, but double carabiner. Oh, but remember, this wouldn't go on our chain. Yeah, it will. That's Victor Justin Rhodes. There, there we go. So we have this situation. I would rather do a— so if you go any bigger on that though, the chain won't go through it. This is too small to go around this. Would it go around that part? But then it wouldn't go around the double. It's not wide enough to hang in the double. Okay, we've shot them, knifed them, we've Gambrelled them, hauled them with the tractor, got with the chain, put them over. We need them on something. We need that. That's where we need to go get that pallet. Well, no, we dip them into the water. Ah, that water has got to be 185 degrees. Maybe we'll haul wood in the morning because it's wet out here. I might put my fire together underneath.

Whoa, shoot!

This is what I'm afraid of. Too much water. One, the water is hard to heat up. The longer it'll take— more water you have, the longer it'll take. Two, you put a pig in there, this water will all come out. Now you don't want to do too much, and if the water comes out, it'll put out your fire. I think I'd rather have that happen than there not be enough water and you you not get a good scald? Although we're only scolding half the pig, so we can go— we're not going to try to attempt to scald the whole pig.

Why not?

Well, it was easier when Brandon was here. Remember, we scald half the pig, lift it up, scrape it, and then switch it over. Okay, can you guys go get me a pallet? Brand new pallet. Just got the fire ready. Well, we're gonna have to get paper out here. I'll do that tomorrow. I don't want to get moist. So we've shot, we've cut, we've, we've scalded, we've hung, we've eviscerated. Now Then we need to get them in barrels, so we know we need to go clean some barrels. Once we have the pig set up, we have everything for the cows and sheep. And you'll see why one reason I think sheep is the ultimate homestead animal. You don't need a tractor to harvest them, you don't need a gun, you can just get them with a knife. Everybody can handle them. Sheep, man, sheep.

What if one of them tasted like cows?

You do like Do you like beef better? Yeah. Yeah, well, sheep has a really rich flavor, but you're right. I mean, beef is more neutral. If I could only eat one meat for the rest of my life, it would certainly be beef, hands down. Hands down, no comp. Now, if you get only two— get only two meats for the rest of your life, I think I would have beef and lamb. What about pork? What happened to pork? Well, pork's so dependent on grain.

Yeah, that's right.

It makes me a little nauseous. You can take pork though if you want, because you couldn't feed— you could feed a pork off of a dairy cow. You don't have to do grain.

Yeah, you, you, you collect nuts.

It'd be pretty close between a lamb and a pork, but I'm gonna go with lamb because they can eat all the grass. Uh, third meat. You can only have 3 meats. I guess it's a pig up there, isn't it? Chicken though. Chicken's for eggs. Eggs though, guys. Eggs. Shoot, maybe chicken. Forgot about that, huh? Chicken gives you eggs.

Well, isn't it— is it chicken? It's a poultry. We're talking about animals. Yeah, or, uh, mammals. Okay, whatever they are.

My spirit definitely got lifted when The beautiful one asked if she wants me to make breakfast. I remember we laid out that sausage. Tell me this, where are our barrels? The ones that we used last time for transport? I want good clean barrels, preferably with lids. That's what I'm asking.

They're downstairs.

Okay, thank you, man. Now butchering too, it's a little tricky keeping everything organized because you only do it once. This year. So things do— that is more of a chance of you forgetting where you put something or it getting gone. Look at this rock hopper, nice. I'm thinking we can put— beef will take up 2 barrels, a pork— there's 2 of them, I think a barrel each, that's 4 barrels. And then the lambs we could probably get in 1 barrel, so We need 5 barrels, and that is not all our barrels. There's only one 50-gallon barrel. There's another one. How do you lose barrels? All you perfect organized people heckling me, I hear you, I hear you. I share my journey. I got problems. Might not be the same problems as your problem, but we all got problems. Could be worse. My problem could be laziness. That's not bad. Two things. And remind me, the boys asked me to play soccer with them this afternoon. Definitely play soccer with you boys. And this one's even got a lid. Look at that. Just look at it. Just look at it. Just look at it. You know, honestly, I don't know why I torture myself. Myself and show you guys this stuff anyway. Hey, found some eggs while I was in here. I could just go around the farm, find all this stuff, line it up, and give you a nice little video. Cute video. This is what you do. These are the supplies. Why do I show this? Why do I torture myself? Haha, looky there, looky there. Boom! Not only do we have 5 barrels, we have 6. 2 of them with lids. This is heavy though. This should not be heavy. What is in that? I dare not look. Kind of nervous.

Oh, why?

This has leaves in it. Do you guys know why the barrel has leaves in it and why the lid was on? For it to be— it smells like— actually smells sweet. Smells like back of them. I think you probably get away with not needing this one. We're gonna have to deal with this at some point or another, so let's just do it now. I show this one because it's the reality, it's the truth, it's the opposite. The hero wants something. I want to get all these, you know, it's a story. What the hero has to want something, there has to be a hero of the story. So what do I want? I want to get all the stuff ready for butchering. Well, the opposite The difficulty is finding all the stuff. If I don't find it, like if I didn't find these barrels, I was really about to say like, that's big trouble. How are you going to transport the stuff to the butcher? Like, that could be an end game. I could be postponing this. Rebecca and I talked this morning and we're like, well, if we don't get this tractor going today, then what? Well, we were about to have to put the— go to a plan B, which which includes another date on this butchering if we couldn't get that tractor going. This is not where I should be dumping leaves. It's fine, this is one of our best pastures, but it's the closest one. Probably why it's one of our best pastures. We always graze the animals here. I should be putting this on a cruddy pasture. Kids! This is like fertilizer. Why am I putting this on my best pack? Breakfast is ready.

I'm coming.

What? Oh, I should have put them in with the pigs. Yeah, duh. Gosh. All right, that would have been easy. Well, maybe not.

What?

They're right here. Children, it's time to eat breakfast. Okay, clean the barrels later. Hey babe, you make me so happy. You got me through. What?

I got you through?

Yeah. Instead of going around and gather stuff, it might be pleasant. Let's go around and find stuff. Well, but I'm glad I didn't do that the day of butchering. Too much pressure. Somebody want to queue up the game? Yes, it's already started. Do we want to watch it live? It's already been gone an hour. Maybe we won't watch it live, we'd watch the recording.

Funny enough, Justin, the kids wanted to split wood today.

Yeah, I know. Yeah, they begged me yesterday, can they split wood? Because they got this paying job, I'm paying them to split wood. I said no, I don't want to deal with it. And I was not thinking that I needed to because maybe I would have let them. Well, I feel like this is one of those situations where we kind of have to do it when we're doing it because they can't do it the week before Christmas, we can't do it the week after Christmas because we're gonna be harvesting on Christmas. It would be like January. And these animals would be mooching off of us for another month. You knocked this out of the park. Look, carnivore sausage biscuit, 2 sausage patties, eggs, pork rinds in my future, boiling the skins, and short— that's more distant future— this evening future short rib, and maybe tomorrow night's dinner future because who wants to be cooking on a butchering day? Go ahead and get it all prepped now. Trimmed all the fat off of the pork skins. I mean, as good as I could. And we're gonna lay them on the dehydrator. And dehydrate them. With the fat, I'm gonna render it down. I got it cooking on low. We stir it every once in a while for a couple hours. It'll be good, uh, to hydrate this for— we'll start with 12 hours, probably gonna be more like 16. Now we've got our work cut out for us. 6 barrels, 2 lids. Not too much, not too nasty. Like, that one's just dusty, pretty much just dusty. The leaf barrel wasn't even too bad. Is that the leaf barrel? I don't know. Ah, shoot. Really? Sally's got a flat tire. Goodness. Mark was just here. We might as well move Mark in over to the farmhouse. No reception. Maybe we can get the internet. Hey kids! Hey, are we gonna still play soccer? We're gonna watch TV all day. On zero day, they get to watch TV. You're the only one that wants to play? Well, then you and I can play. We can practice our skills. I gotta first clean this though. A Shackley soap. It's probably plenty. It's probably too much. Some Mac. Overall, great farm soap. Dewormer, once a month, half a cup into 50 gallons of water. Where was this? Well, it was in the trash, but we should probably save it.

Very good.

Or one of the minerals. Why they would throw that away? Because we'll have it then for the, uh, party.

I was just gonna get 2 FiberTuff.

We found another nozzle. It was on a— it was on a hose that had been abandoned in the field. Thank you, Jonah, for remembering that. And I think I just remembered where another one— remember when we filled up the wood boiler? That would be my fault for not making sure that got— yeah, I know. And I ordered pieces, they're coming to fix it. All right, ready as I want to be. Because look at this. That's my boy, just turned 15 years old, kicking around the soccer ball by himself. I gotta grab this moment while I can. Plenty more to do, but that's got to be somewhere up at the top. Hey, you got a goal? Oh, we got even a We got a net with the sheep's goal. You said you wanted to practice being goalie. Well, I like this. I get practice shooting. It's a penalty kick.

Sure, nobody else to play with.

Okay. Oh, you'd block that!

Let me back up.

Sure.

All right. Oh boy, you're gonna be a tough one now.

Oh, 1-1.

Yes, I do. I'm very aware of that.

You know I tricked you, right?

Yes.

No, that time I went where I was looking.

Oh, that hurts.

All right, that young man worked this old man there at the end. It's good for me, aches and all, aches and all. I get it better so I can do this 20 years from now when I'm 64. Oh yeah, that's good for it, movement. Look at this site.

I like it.

Jonah, how was it playing soccer with the old man?

Good, good.

It was fun.

Yeah.

How's the beef? The short ribs? I haven't had them yet. Once a meal in our, in our life. How do you like them? How do you like them? I love them. Got a little bit of sauerkraut. That's the only non-meat thing I'm eating, if you don't count eggs. Sauerkraut and pickles. I don't know if you don't count butter. Yeah, meat. I only eat meat, sauerkraut, pickles, and butter, and eggs, spices. That's it. That sums it up. How's everybody else like it?

Good.

Oh, good. You're gonna get more?

Yeah, maybe.

Yeah, you ready to butcher tomorrow? Big butchering day tomorrow. Lots of tractor use tomorrow. Can you say bye to the vloggers? Can you say bye-bye? Can you say thank you?

Can you wave?

Can you say Papa? He's not gonna say any of it.

All right, happy day.

See you tomorrow.